Leonella Sgorbati
1940-2006 20th century Feast day: September 17
Forgiveness given with the last breath, without strength and without preparation.
Who was Leonella Sgorbati?
An Italian Consolata sister and nurse, she spent thirty-five years in Kenya and then in Somalia, training midwives in a country with no nursing school. She knew the danger and stayed. Shot outside the hospital in Mogadishu together with her bodyguard, she died forgiving.
In their own words
I forgive. I forgive. I forgive.
I know there is a bullet with my name on it. I do not know when it will come, but as long as it has not come, I stay.